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I've fallen on a deep sci-fi binge, so I'm going to recommend what I've read so far (lately) and loved:

Ender Series: The sequels to "Ender's Game" are not on par with the first, but they're compelling nonetheless (except maybe Childrens of the Mind), and the Bean series (Ender's Shadow and the sequels) is GREAT. I would recommend reading the sequels, and if not, to stay with the same Ender's Game vibe, then at least read Ender's Shadow, as it opens up the story a lot more.

Foundation (Isaac Asimov): One of the groundbreaking sci-fi series. I've currently read only the first one (Foundation) and absolutely loved it. It takes up several character's point of view over the course of a lot of years. But don't worry, each character get their spot lights and they shine in it. And the universe he creates is one I'm anxious to get back once I finish with...

Leviathan Wakes (James S.A. Corey): This one I'm still reading, so I won't jump up and say: READ IT, IT'S AMAZING! But I will say this, it's long and full of twists, but it's two central characters are fun and interesting. Someone said it's like reading the best sci-fi movie there is. And it kind of is. It's full of action, suspense, some horror and fun writing. I would check it out if I were you.

Spin: I enjoyed this one. Not fanatical about it, but still enjoyable. It's a little bit too long, but the mystery around the event that occurs in the book is interesting and compelling enough to continue. The characters feel real, and the drama around it is fun.

A while ago I also read: The Forever War which I liked a lot. I like seeing humanity evolve, so this book was awesome. I hear it's a lot like Old Man's War, but I've heard better things from Forever War than Old Man's. Might be worth checking out.

Hope I was helpful!

I think the best way is to suggest a few that got me into reading. One or two are YA, but well-written enough that I find it as worthwhile a read at 28 as it did at 14.

Ender's Game - Earth Has made contact with an alien species, and... It didn't go well. A program is started to teach a new generation of soldiers how to fight this alien threat. Children are not allowed to be children for long when the future of mankind is on the line. Also, it's being adapted into what is shaping up to be a pretty badass movie.

Snow Crash - Written in the 90's, but it essentially pioneered the concept of the online avatar, and predicted the rise of the MMO. Also, pizza-delivering ninjas. Trust me on this. It's good stuff.

Neuromancer Classic cyber-punk. Most sci-fi is like you see in star trek. Clean and sterile. Cyberpunk is the dirtier side of sci-fi. Organized crime, computer hacking, and a heist on a space station. And Molly. This book is the reason I have a thing for dangerous redheads.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Considered by most to be the very best in sci-fi humor. Lighthearted, hilarious, and I find I can read it in the course of about two days. It is absolutely, completely, and utterly amazing.

American Gods - What happens to the old gods when we start worshiping the new ones? Can the likes of Odin or Anubis compete with our new objects of worship. like television or internet? Remember, Gods only exist as long as folks believe in them. The old Gods aren't going down without a fight, though...

Hope some of these strike your fancy. It's admittedly more sci-fi than anything, but it's all soft sci-fi (Where the science isn't as important as the fiction, so story comes first), and nothing too out there. Please let me know if you decide to try any of these, and especially let me know if you enjoy them. I always like to hear if I help someone find a book they love.

Most of the time I am "in the mood" for a certain genre or type of book. I will recommend some of my favorites that are easy to read and enjoyable. With a super short summary to see if it sparks your interest.

Fantasy:

• Name of the Wind : Great fantasy novel which follows a single character, Kvothe, who is an old innkeeper with a mysterious and illustrious past telling the story of how he became a legend. It is very well written and highly entertaining, the book is all about Kvothe as a teenager just trying to survive and becoming an arcanist. Highly recommended.
  
  
• Mistborn Trilogy : I've only read the first one. A dystopian world where ash falls from the sky every day with a centuries old tyrannical ruler. The story follows a young girl who is just trying to survive on the streets any way she can but gets caught up with revolutionists. Very enjoyable, and a unique magic system.
  
  Scifi:
  
  
• Ender's Game: This an Dune are always recommended for anyone looking to get into scifi...as well as Foundation series (which I haven't read :/). Earth has been attacked by an alien species of bugs...twice. We barely survived last time, so in order for us to prepare if it happens again Earth has started training military geniuses. Ender is one of the children chosen for training, and he is the best of the best. The story focuses on him and his story about rising through the ranks to try and save earth.
  
  
• Dune: If you want to experience a sand world with giant worms, extreme political tension, plot twists, feints within feints. I could say more, but simply saying that it is in my Top 3 favorite books says enough.
  
  
• Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy: Probably one of the funniest books I've ever read. It is highly regarded among this community and geeks as a whole. Do not judge it by the movie, this is a must-read book if you want a laugh.
  
  

The King in Yellow was arguable Lovecraft's biggest influence.

Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast books might be a good fit.

Haruki Murakami in my opinion does "dreamlike" better then anyone else I have read. The Wind up Bird Chronicles, might be a good start.

For something like Stardust, I would recommend John Crowly, particularly Little Big, Winters Tale, and maybe Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

I think Clive Barker hits the tone you are looking for sometimes, but not in all of his work, maybe someone who has read him more can give a better recommendation.

If you have not read China Miéville Perdido Street Station would be a good start.

I just started The Drowning Girl so can't really give a full review, but so far it seems like it would also be a good fit.

For something that is not really what you asked for, but is a fun read for a Lovecraft fan I would recommend Charles Stross' The Laundry Files Series, Starting with The Atrocity Archive A semi comic story about the bureaucratic side of the secret agency that deals with the impending lovecraftian nightmare apocalypse, a little pulpy, but lots of fun.

China Miéville's Un Lun Dun. It's a kids' book, but it's fantastic. Miéville turns a lot of the standard fantasy tropes on their heads, with thoroughly enjoyable results.

Dathan Auerbach's Penpal. Horror/suspense, written by a redditor, and debuted on reddit. The Kindle version is less than $4. Seriously creepy but totally worth it.

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens. I have never laughed so much while reading. It's phenomenal.

Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age. What happens to poor people once nanotechnology can be used to make anything? It's my favorite of the Stephensons I've read, but it still ends like a Neal Stephenson novel. :|

Cory Doctorow's Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. It's about the first-born son of a mountain and a washing machine. It's also about setting up wireless networks. Also: it's FREE.

Hope you enjoy some of these! :)

Hey, OP! High school English teacher/book nerd here. Hopefully I can help you find a book that you enjoy! I reviewed your criteria, and the only thing I would like you to reconsider is the length. I know, I know, typical English teacher trying to get you to read more, but I promise you if us Redditors can find you a book you LOVE, then you won't want to put it down! I've read the following list, and think they fit your list for the most part (especially the suitable for a 13-year-old young man, this is essential for my job every day!)

Here's some young adult books that fall into the horror (read: horror, supernatural, psychological thriller, etc) or realistic fiction.


The Replacements: Mackie is not one of us. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, he comes from a world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living dead girls ruled by a little tattooed princess. He is a Replacement — left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. Now, because of fatal allergies to iron, blood, and consecrated ground, Mackie is slowly dying in the human world.


Asylum: Super creepy, twisting plot line, male protagonist, definitely a great read all around.


Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children: MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE BOOK ON THIS LIST A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. If you like this book, definitely read Asylum; I found those two went well together.

Unwind: This is a dystopian (realistic fiction) novel that we teach in 7th grade in my school district. Our students LOVE it, and the good news is that it is a series! We do require mom and dad to sign off before they read (and have never had any complaints...), but check with your parents before you delve into this one!

If you want a straightforward page-turner, try The Descent by Jeff Long. Turns out, a species of hominid diverged from homo sapiens a long time ago, and continued to evolve deep below the earth, in underground caves and tunnels. All of a sudden they seem to be coming to the surface to attack people, and we've got to stop 'em. To paraphrase one of the characters, "we've declared war on hell".

If you want something more challenging, how about House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski. It's hard to describe this book, but if you get a chance to pick it up in the bookstore, flip through the pages and look at how it's laid out. The fonts and layout change, some pages only have a couple of words on them, some pages are printed diagonally, others reversed. The book itself is a mystery about a mystery. It may be a horror story, or it may not be, but it will definitely give you an uneasy feeling when you're out there in the woods.

If you want a book that may inspire you while you're out there, pretty much anything by John Muir would do, but how about The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures. I haven't read this book, but it's a compilation of his writing and I'm sure I've read many of the stories that go into it. Muir is a great lover of and writer about nature, and had a lot of adventures to draw from.

Have fun on your trip!

How are there 45 comments without a mention of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao?

Ostensibly, it's about a shy, scifi/fantasy-obsessed geek growing up in the considerably-more-machismo-oriented immigrant Dominican community in bridge&tunnel Jersey, but eventually finding some massive, iron-clad balls. But you don't read Junot Diaz for the plot -- you read him because he writes like Milan Kundera with a sense of humor, or like David Foster Wallace with a heart, or like David Sedaris if David Sedaris had misspent his youth as a Dungeon Master. Also because it's a great, HST-esque crashcourse in the bizarro politics of the Cold-War Carribean.

TL;DR: This book is fucking awesome.

The Best of Roald Dahl - a great collection of short stories.

The Portable Door by Tom Holt - funny & a good story.

Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich - fast-paced, entertaining non-fiction.

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby - better than the movie. Easy read, funny.

I loved these books for their beautiful writing and narrative structure:

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
  
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
  
• In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
  
  Other suggestions, also well written but not quite in the same class as the ones above:
  
  
• Tell a Thousand Lies by Rasana Atreya
  
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  The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
  
• Anything by Jane Austen. Though the stories were a bit romantic for my taste, her writing style is just brilliantly precise.
  
• pretty much anything by Chuck Palahniuk. Note these may be more aggressively written, but I still find the narrative structure of Rant to be pretty awesome.

Robin Mckinley - anything by her though specifically Sunshine. If you haven't read Mercades Lackey than you would probably like her since you like Tamora Pierce. Start with Arrows for the Queen or Magic's Pawn. Raymond E Feist writes another good fantasy series that has tons of books in it. You might even like the Robert Jordan Wheel of Time books since you like the Game of Thrones. If you haven't read the Ender's Game books by Orson Scott Card they are very good. Some classical sci-fi - Foundation series by Issac Asimov.

edit: also because it looks like you like some historical romance The Secret History of the Pink Carnation and Peony in Love.

What about checking out some of Arthur C. Clarke's stuff? Rendezvous with Rama and 2001 spring immediately to mind, although I'm quite partial to A Fall of Moondust. It doesn't have any aliens, but it is one of the most intense sci-fi books I've ever read.

Maybe check out Leviathan Wakes by a couple of writers going under the pseudonym James S. A. Corey. It's pretty good with the science, is set in our solar system in the near future, and features a weird alien attack. It also has a bit of a Firefly vibe, I thought, so if that's your thing I'd heartily recommend it.

There's always the Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton, starting with The Reality Dysfunction. They're big space opera books, although it's obvious Hamilton knows a bit about physics, and they can get very creepy. Probably one of the best written and enjoyable series I've ever read, although the ending is a bit flat.

Finally, I'd look at Midshipman's Hope by David Feintuch. It's been a while since I've read it and it's basically a Napoleonic era battleship setting transferred onto a spaceship, buy I recall that the second half of the book was one of the most exciting and nail-biting examples of trying to save a damaged spaceship all alone in space that I'd ever read. Anyway, give it a go, I suppose.

You said you wanted to get away from non-fiction and read more thrillers, but here is a non-fiction book that IS a thriller. John Vaillant's The Tiger: a True story of Vengeance and Survival.

As for fictional thrillers, the Agent Pendergast series by Preston & Child is suspenseful and fast moving. Relic is the first. If you saw the movie based on it from the 90's with Mira Sorvino, don't let that stop you from reading. Of course the book is better.

Good luck!

Riddley Walker by Russel Hoban. It's pure wonderfulness in a language that resembles English, with a story that's like Huckleberry Finn in a Hieronymous Bosch painting,
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/nov/13/riddley-walker-russell-hoban-bookclub

You also might wish to try Left-handed Luck by Rod Michalchuk.
Average rating on Amazon is 4.6 out of 5 stars. On Goodreads it's 4.7 out of 5 stars. On Smashwords it's free: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/445031 On Amazon it's $.79: https://www.amazon.com/Left-handed-Luck-Rod-Michalchuk-ebook/dp/B008Y11YI4

You might enjoy The Golem and the Jinni...It's set in turn of the century New York, and has strong cultural and religious overtones. The magical aspects of it are quite secondary to everything else.

A Winters Tale...the movie apparently sucked, but the book has stuck with me for quite some time. It's a lyrical piece of magic realism, much stronger on the realism. Another book on turn of the century New York.

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell may be a bit more magic than you'd like, but it's astonishingly good. It's what Jane Austen would have produced if she'd decided to write a fantasy novel.

The Night Circus is good.

The HItchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
The one I linked to is actually a collection of all 5 in the Trilogy, but it is so worth reading. Also, I thoroughly enjoyed anything I've read by Vonnegut.
If you like Sci-Fi, check out Orson Scott Card's work. I'd start with Ender's Game. What Would Satan Do?. Don't let the title discourage you. It offers a very interesting take on the apocalypse. I am currently reading Immaculate Deception, very interesting.

I might suggest The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. It's been a while since I've read it, but I feel like the chapters might be a bit long if you wanted to read one or two over a lunch break (depending on how long you have to read on a break). It's not quite as fun of a read as Kingkiller, I would put it between Kingkiller and A Song of Ice and Fire, but I do highly recommend it regardless. Also by Brandon Sanderson I highly recommend the Mistborn Series. Warning about the way of kings, it is part one of a planned 10 part series, with the second part only coming out hopefully next year, so that might be a turn off for you.

I myself have just started reading The First Law series, and while I can't quite recommend it yet, it seems to read and feel very similar to The Way of Kings, but with shorter chapters. I am expecting good things from it, and the lengths of the chapters seem very suitable to a lunch break.

Links to kindle editions to take advantage of the reading samples:
Way of Kings
Mistborn
First Law

I'd like to recommend my books, so far there are two in the "Queen in Exile" series and I'm writing the third at the moment.

The first is about going to Mars and making first contact, here's the synopsis,

"Queen in Exile follows in particular the fortunes of Duncan McCann who out of the turmoil of the 21st century leads a team of astronauts to Mars. Upon reaching the Red Planet he discovers that Mankind has a date with destiny. Within a short time humanity is forced to participate in a game of galactic poker, the stakes and prize being survival of the species.

As McCann takes the lead in the battle for survival he meets many interesting characters including the beautiful Ilamachutli who with her quick wits and superior knowledge pressures Mankind into bending to her will; and then there’s Louis Beaumont the passionate nano engineer on board the Athena with an ego to match his abilities, always convinced that the universe is conspiring to make his life miserable! Each of them prepares to meet their destinies as fate and prophecy collide on Otoch in a dramatic climax."

The second book "Voice of Machine" follows on directly from the first. Both books have what you're asking for but are only in ebook format, though it allows you to read the first few chapters for free.

Queen in Exile: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Queen-in-Exile-ebook/dp/B009K7DCF4/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1381561072&sr=1-1&keywords=queen+in+exile

Voice of Machine: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Voice-Machine-Queen-Exile-ebook/dp/B00EC9KPMI/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1381561072&sr=1-3&keywords=queen+in+exile

Not quite as grandiose as ASOIAF but might be a shade of what you're looking for is Joe Abercrombie's series The First Law

I found them to be a fun read, it doesn't span quite as many characters as does ASOIAF, but Abercrombie has about as much sympathy for his characters as Martin does, and many of their stories do tend to meet and intersect. 3rd book throws a few curveballs in there as well. Might be worth your while to check out.

For predictable fluff in a historical setting, there's Eva Ibbotson's books. I've personally read A Countess Below Stairs and The Reluctant Heiress and they were pretty much the same books in different European locales. Not overly cloying, but nothing particularly clever.

For awkward geek romance that's definitely not gooey, I highly recommend Boy Proof. It might not really count as a romance though.

I enjoyed Daemon by Daniel Saurez. Freedom was worth the follow up as well. Might not be exactly the VR world you have in mind, but I thought it fun.

I just finished Salem's Lot by Stephen King; it was a good read and totally changed the way I feel about strange dark rooms. Just don't research the storyline. I went in not knowing what it was about and was pleasantly surprised about halfway through. If you do plan on getting this book, I suggest the illustrated edition, it is beautiful.

I'm waiting for House of Leaves to arrive in the mail, from what I'v heard, this will do the trick.

The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie, first of 6. Great deal on the ebook version at present. Abercrombie writes a brand of fantasy noir long on swords, short on sorcery, has great characters and pacing.

I personally liked Mistborn, but I think Sandson's other series, The Stormlight Archive, is better, and a bit more like Name of the Wind.

I seem to remember it being planned as a 10 book series, but 5 have been announced. The first book, "The Way of Kings," is a couple years old, and the 2nd "Words of Radiance," is supposed to be out this fall.

Penpal by Dathan Auerbach is pretty perfect for you.

For non-fiction, try Endurance, about Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition. Absolutely true, and an amazing story.

Daemon by Daniel Saurez

Might interest you in that case , It's a scifi thriller about a computer software which goes out of control , If I'm not wrong it's 400 pages long with a nice twist punch at the end.

Well so much depends on everything. Some basic suggestions:.

Contemporary Science Fiction:
Ted Chaing, Stories of Your Life and Others his short stories are science fiction gems. https://www.amazon.com/Stories-Your-Life-Others-Chiang/dp/1101972122.

Classical: Vladimir Nabokov Short Stories, amazing prose. Though English was his second language he wrote a good number, especially the later half, in English, often challenging themes from dubious narrators.
https://www.amazon.com/Stories-Vladimir-Nabokov/dp/0679729976.

International Fiction: Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore, reductionist, clean prose, with symbolic/metaphorical imagery that blends hard-boiled noir, Japanese animism, and surrealism. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1400079276/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_RxntybB7PYK93

Post Modern: Roberto Bolano, 2666: A Novel, perhaps the odd relative of Murakami in structure if not style. Sometimes rambling, though powerful prose with surrealist moments within graphic and "visceral" scenes. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0312429215/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_ZAntybTW2XXJX.

Deconstructionism: Mark Danieleski, House of Leaves, carefully crafted entangled adventure horror of a story, explained in the footnotes of an essay, edited by a tattoo artist, written by a blind man of a homemade video of a house gone awry. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0375703764/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_XMntyb3RT3RKQ

A start

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is an excellent tale of the resurgence of magic in 19th century England and it is just amazing.

Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn or Stormlight series. Both are meticulously plotted high fantasy, and like the Kingkiller Chronicles the magic system has clear and constant rules.

For some crazy reason the first book in Stormlight is free on Amazon right now (kindle) http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B003P2WO5E?cache=88d1bad7bfcdbb326b0b476fd62c6bd1&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70&qid=1411665231&sr=8-2#ref=mp_s_a_1_2

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, for sure! Super creepy book about kids with superpowers

https://www.amazon.com/Miss-Peregrines-Home-Peculiar-Children/dp/1594746036

These suggestions all fit the category of 1. hard to put down. 2. simple reads

They are also more on the fantasy side of the spectrum.

Highly recommend:

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children All three books in the trilogy are great. Maybe stay away from the movie...

The Night Circus

The Hunger Games trilogy Yes, I'm sure you've seen the movies, but the books will add another level.

I would say Leviathan Wakes would be right up your street. Well written, keeps you interested and wanting to turn pages. Praised by George R. R. Martin no less.

Endurance. Everything you've gone through or are going through pales in comparison to what Shackleton and his men went through. But I hope things get better for you, anyway.

These! Screw Mystery and Thriller. Read transgressive contemporary fiction! It's better for your brain.

https://www.amazon.com/We-Run-Bad-John-Curry-ebook/dp/B07DDL22LZ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1535913480&sr=8-1&keywords=we+run+bad

https://www.amazon.com/Chump-Change-Novel-Dan-Fante/dp/0061779245/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1535916000&sr=1-1&keywords=chump+change+fante

https://www.amazon.com/Fans-Notes-Frederick-Exley/dp/0679720766

https://www.amazon.com/Post-Office-Novel-Charles-Bukowski/dp/0061177571/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1535917754&sr=8-1&keywords=the+post+office+bukowski

https://www.amazon.com/Florida-Roadkill-Novel-Serge-Storms/dp/006113922X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1536517830&sr=8-1&keywords=florida+roadkill

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Daemon and it's sequel Freedom by Daniel Suarez would probably be a good recommendation if you like those two books you mentioned in the title.

Penpal by Dathan Auerbach. It's a book about childhood memories and how sometimes adult hindsight provides context for things that were a whole lot scarier than kid-you thought they were.

It's not gory, it's not particularly violent through most of the book. But the story creates a constant, ever-increasing burden of dread. It draws you in and makes you keep reading, even as you know in your heart that it will end oh so poorly.

Not all of these have cannibalism, but most:

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Poe, The Boat, In The Heart of The Sea (this is a really awesome book, as are the authors other works), Endurance, Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls, The Wreck of the Medusa, The Wreck of the Dumaru, Life of Pi

A couple non-fiction (with a legal focus) books about the Mignonette incident and the resulting famous case of Regina v Dudley and Stevens: Is Eating People Wrong?, and The Custom of the Sea

Blood Song and The Name of the Wind are easily accessible and engaging. I would also say Adversaries Together

I just finished Daemon and Freedom (TM), a two-part series by Daniel Suarez. I liked them a lot, and I suspect I would have liked them even more if I were into online gaming.

I found out about Brandon Sanderson from this sub and really enjoyed these two series:

Mistborn

The Stormlight Archive

I also can't recommend Jon Krakauer enough.

A trilogy I enjoyed very much and I feel is undervalued are The First Law books by Joe Abercrombie. Here is the link to the first book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/159102594X

Here's a few that I just finished & enjoyed

Adversaries Together

Bringer of Light

The Mirror Empire

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

Oh definitely check out Endurance. It's harrowing!

If you looking for in depth characters and story, but not necessarily horror try Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel https://www.amazon.com/dp/0765356155/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_wK6XCbT15W2BZ

Joe Abercrombie's books are a good kickass follow up to Lynch.

Try The Blade Itself

I would recommend House of Leaves if you want kind of trippy psychological stuff.

Very creepy book.

These are all books on my list to read from various suggestions. Maybe one will spark your interest:

Every Day "Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl.
There’s never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere."

1Q84"The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.”

The Mists of Avalon "Here is the magical legend of King Arthur, vividly retold through the eyes and lives of the women who wielded power from behind the throne. A spellbinding novel, an extraordinary literary achievement, THE MISTS OF AVALON will stay with you for a long time to come...."

The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao "Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love."

The Fault in Our Stars "Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Agustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten."

You might like Daemon by Daniel Suarez.

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House of Leaves

Novel by Mark Z. Danielewski

ISBN-10: 0375703764

ISBN-13: 978-0375703768

Endurance by Lansing

http://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Shackletons-Incredible-Alfred-Lansing/dp/078670621X

Incredible. Life changing adventure read. Really. Go seek it out.

Not quite mountaineering disaster books, but still may interest you: Endurance - there are two versions, one is the captain's journal and the other is a nonfiction novel; and No Picnic on Mt Kenya is the autobiography of a man who broke out of a WWII POW camp in order to climb Mt Kenya and then snuck back into the camp

Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple


Every Day by David Levithan


Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer


Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage. Which could also be titled, Nothing is so Shitty, it can't get Shittier.

I haven't seen it myself, but if you want something coming-of-age from a POC author/characters' perspective, Junot Diaz's The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao would probably be right up your alley.

Didn't see House of Leaves

• and We Need to talk about Kevin is on there twice
  

House of Leaves

House of Leaves

House of Leaves.

you need to get John Dies at the End or maybe [Daemon] (http://www.amazon.com/Daemon-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0451228731/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1377281217&sr=1-1&keywords=daemon+by+daniel+suarez).

http://www.amazon.com/Jonathan-Strange-Mr-Norrell-Novel/dp/0765356155

I recommend The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant.

It's the true story of a man-eating tiger (which some of the locals believed was out for revenge against the hunter that tried to kill it) and the hunt to kill it. The book also touches on humans evolving in a world of tigers and bit of Russian history. There are lots of really good side stories to keep you interested, too.

This is the edition I have…

http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/0375703764/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_0?ie=UTF8&index=0&isremote=0

… which has all coloring, including the ultra-rare purple. It’s a large paperback with the front cover smaller, as seen in the pic. Alas that seems to be the more expensive one (library binding). On the 5th or 6th page of the ‘look inside’ preview, it tells what version of book it is.

The Expanse series is the closest I've been able to find.

It follows a small scrappy crew and their struggles to stay flying amid civil war and lots, lots more. I don't want to spoil anything. It's a great read.